THE SOVIET UNION'S latest proposal, that all intermediate-range nuclear from across Europe as a practical first step towards the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide, is to be wholeheartedly supported. announcement on Saturday 28 February implement an outline treaty reached at Reykjavik and that a separate agreement on medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe could be concluded 'without delay'.
In essence, the Soviet would mean: vival allie Soviet United States would ceal intermediate cruise and Pershing out of • each would keep 100 of warners their own territory, that is sited in the Asian part the territories of the USSR respectively.
Gorbachev said: 'The Soviet still highly considers important to reach agreement on substantial limitation Inen elimination of strategic Of the conclusion •of such ducalcull. as had been repeatedly emphasised, should be conditioned by a decision on preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space.' However, he made certaintendercce range nuclear force (INF)
the Soviet Union would not be made conditional reaching agreement on Star Wars.
Ai the Iceland talks last allene. SD research and used research development as the excuse turn down Soviet proposals for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Western reaction these latest proposals has been mixed.
the so-called powers, have so far taken THREE HUNDRED and forty people assembled in the conference, along with the Labour Party, the TUC and the Parliamentary Labour Party.
The delegates came movement, with the strongest delegations from Parties, speeches from Yose Lopez NUM. heard or the Nicaraguan. trade federation, the CST, from Hector Oqueli of the political-diplomatic of the FDRLOSINAST FMLN of El Salvador, Peter Heathfield of the NUM front-bench spokesperson on The region, George Foulkes Audrey Wise, a member of the NEC chaired the conference.
Jose Lopez explained the two priorities of the Nicaraguan unions were defence of against US-backed military aggression, and a campaign LO DOUSE DIU duction and to defeat US economic aggression and trade embargo.
'We stress US aggresmissiles be removed In an unexpected Mikhail Gorbachev said that the USSR and USA should eliminating opposite positions. foreign minister Jean-Bernard Hulerviewcu on French television he said that proposals contained that any agreement should not upset 'military foreign ministry statement was quite exoncil. said: 'bearing in mind the lack of balance in conventional chemical forces Europe the objective must he to de nuclearisation of Western Europe' (our italics). Thus France is maintaining the sallit pro-nuclear stance adopted in response to Reyjavik.
This position has been backed up by General Bernard Rogers, out-going commander-in-chief in Europe. Rogers relected the Soviet proposal which, he said, be taken in isolation from issues such as short-range missiles and conventional forces without weakening NATO's positivi Europe.
Both Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe have taken a different line in public. Howe declared that an INF agreement 'could transform for the better the whole atmosphere which control talks and relations TUC's Congress House in London for the peace entral reconstruction America'. Six unions were nationally represented at sion,' he said, 'because it is the fundamental factor hindering the economic, social development of the people.' Lopez detailed some of the of the six-year Dolled on seriousty contra war: 38,580 wounded, peasants forced be economit cost of nearly $3 billion.
He pledged that 'with our sweat and blood' the Nicaraguan people would continue to deepen unel own revolution and contribute to the worldwide revolutionary struggle. He said that their endeavours had brought great progress in health care, education, agrarian reform and a new constitution whose drafting we all had the opportunity to parțicipate explained how the workers movement had grown 'in strength, between East and West are Colence.. LOO has publicly at the British mowever Lne response Downing Street has mischies end Thatcher is there are because, well as the the conventional The however, has taken a clear position. Defence spokes person Denzil Davies said Thatcher must not try Monday that 'Mrs link any agreement to other issues' David Owen for the 'warmly welcomed' But like the tory posals.
with 90 per cent of the working class organised in 5763 local unions in the inLa Care anc service sectors.
Lopez concluded by calling for a major campign US funding of the contras and explaining how Nicaragua were gains the world working Nicaragua overcame, so El The regional character of the conflict was taken up by Hector Oqueli. 'The Central American region came to be rediscovered with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship The said. With the build-up of Us forces, US economic and military aid repressive regimes Grenada: t is asiar that invasion the present Central American conflict has reached a regional character.' He showed that the Duarte regime in El Salvador not only conducting a civil war against the people of his but also:
COULE Y 'something more than ac complices of a direct policy against self-determination and peace That The proposals result the West tion He took ClOt Labour to its any deal with condisof nuclear weapons Mitterrand Chirac, West Gertion to any deal which British their nuclear arsenals.
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